2009 Poll 2.0

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Choose your favourite films from 2009 (according to IMDB).

Each person can vote for up to 20 films. Do not feel compelled to fill the maximum allowable number.

Twenty-film ballots can be formatted as follows:
- Five tiers of four films each, 4/4/4/4/4; scored 5-4-3-2-1 pts/film/tier
- Four tiers of five films each, 5/5/5/5; scored 4.5-3.5-2.5-1.5 pts/film/tier
- Two tiers of ten films each, 10/10; scored 4-2 pts/film/tier
- No tiers, unranked; scored 3 pts/film
- A 20-film three-tier ballot is not possible

A tiered ballot can include less than 20 films, but in that case the total number of films must still be able to be factored by the number of tiers, so:
- A five tier ballot can include only 20, 15, 10, or 5 films
- A four tier ballot can include only 20, 16, 12, 8, or 4 films
- A three tier ballot (scored 5-3-1) can include only 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, or 3 films
- A two tier ballot can include only 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, or 2 films
- Ballots that are 19, 17, 13, 11, 7 or 1 films must be no tiers

Users are urged to post their provisional lists as soon as possible, so that others can use them for recommendations. You may revise your lists at any point prior to the deadline. Ballots posted by new members who have not participated in other parts of the forum are welcome, but they will be considered on a case-by-case basis and are not guaranteed inclusion on the final list.

Deadline for 2009 lists will be Thursday, March 31st at around midnight EDT.

[Silga]

Provisional list:

Watchmen (Zack Snyder)
Bad Day to Go Fishing (Alvaro Brechner)
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi)
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)
Whatever Works (Woody Allen)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
Agora (Alejandro Amenabar)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Micmacs (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

In the Electric Mist (Bertrand Tavernier)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
Welcome (Philippe Lioret)
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella)

A Serious Man (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore)
The Messenger (Oren Moverman)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (David Yates)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)

[sally]

eccentricities of a blonde-haired girl / singularidades de uma rapariga loura - manoel de oliveira
police, adjective / polițist, adjectiv - corneliu porumboiu
bluebeard / barbe bleue - catherine breillat
craneway event - tacita dean
the mouth of the wolf / la bocca del lupo - pietro marcello
wild grass / les herbes folles - alain resnais
like you know it all / 잘 알지도 못하면서 - hong sang-soo
lowlands - peter thompson
double tide - sharon lockhart
the time that remains / الزمن الباقي - elia suleiman
the old school of capitalism / stara škola kapitalizma - želimir žilnik
hiroshima - pablo stoll
i travel because i have to, i come back because i love you / viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo - karim aïnouz, marcelo gomes
o'er the land - deborah stratman
face / visage - tsai ming-liang
terrorism considered as one of the fine arts - peter whitehead
goodbye, how are you? / довиђења, како сте? - boris mitić
correspondances - eugène green
the queen of hearts / la reine des pommes - valérie donzelli
everyone else / alle anderen - maren ade



to watch:
the day after / 어떤 개인 날 - lee suk-gyung
montparnasse -mikhaël hers
stranded / le naufragé - guillaume brac
please, please me / fais-moi plaisir! - emmanuel mouret
los condenados - isaki lacuesta

[flip]

there are directors i wouldn't usually vote for in these polls (tarantino, wes anderson, haneke, even post-70s herzog) who to me made their best films (or top two or three) in this year. it's funny, if i made a watchlist for this year, a lot of it would include sally's ballot above -- i haven't seen even one of those films, though i've been meaning to watch a lot of them, so maybe i'd replace almost my entire ballot if i saw them all. we'll see what i have time for!

The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Punching the Clown (Gregori Viens)
Frontier Blues (Babak Jalali)
City Island (Raymond De Felitta)

In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy)
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
Triangle (Christopher Smith)

The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
Minus (Kazem Mollaie)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi)

Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daichi Saito)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
Navidad (Sebastian Lelio)
Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call (Werner Herzog)
A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson)
Vengeance (Johnnie To)

[greennui]

Bright Star (Jane Campion)
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
In Comparison (Harun Farocki)
Lost in the Mountains (Hong Sang-soo)
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)

The Mouth of the Wolf (Pietro Marcello)
Halloween II (Rob Zombie)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch)
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi)
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)

Looking for Eric (Ken Loach)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
A Single Man (Tom Ford)
Travis (Kelly Reichardt)

watclist:

The Mask of Medusa (Jean Rollin)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
The Damned United (Tom Hooper)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
Apocalypse: The Second World War

[greennui]

Sooooo many films that I watched at the time that I can't remember/be sure of that I would still like due to gestation. Like, I remember feeling rather enthusiastic about A Prophet, wouldn't know now though.

[nrh]

The Invisible Collection (Rita Azevedo Gomez)
Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
The Wolberg Family (Axelle Ropert)
Castro (Alejo Moguillansky)
The Day After (Lee Suk-Gyung)

Please Please Me (Emmanuel Mouret)
Dev D. (Anurag Kashyap)
Gulaal (Anurag Kashyap)
Written By (Wai Ka-Fai)
Kakera (Momoko Ando)

Kaminey (Vishal Bhardwaj)
Maghadeera (S.S. Rajamouli)
Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
Vengeance (Johnnie To)
Kutty Srank (Shaji Karun)

The First Seventh Night (Herman Yau)
The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)
Bellamy (Claude Chabrol)
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar)

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

It's Complicated (Nancy Meyers)
The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements, John Musker)
Confessions of a Shopaholic (P.J. Hogan)

As usual in years like this, voting for 3 movies that resemble romance novels is all I kind sincerely offer. I don't always bother to vote in a year like this (given my paucity of votes and my lack of cinephilically acceptable taste), but I can't resist the urge to throw a slurve now and again.

[nrh]

Confessions of a Shopaholic (P.J. Hogan)

glad to see a vote for this, a rare bright spot in one of the worst ever years for american romantic comedies (the ugly truth may be one of the absolute nadirs of the tradition.

i have become increasingly fond of the first love aaj kaal and ajab prem ki ghazab kahaani though, and of course the mouret (though that one is more of a farce, as is apkgk i guess)...

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

Ah, splendid! As I recall, the guy she falls in love with is the most boring cardboard cutout standee ever, but one's crush on Isla Fisher + fashion delights make it enjoyable.

[Lencho of the Apes]

Not a year I know much about, but I'll endorse these:

La Mitad Del Mundo - Jaime Ruiz Ibáñez
Bala Mordida - Diego Muñoz

and maybe

Corazon Del Tiempo - Alberto Cortés

Not sure if that last one holds up. I know there's a subbed copy of la Mitad... online somewhere.

[DT.]

Accident (Soi Cheang)
Bright Star (Jane Campion)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
Grandmother (Brillante Mendoza)
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
In the Beginning (Xavier Giannoli)
It Felt Like a Kiss (Adam Curtis)
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner)
Moloch Tropical (Raoul Peck)
Polytechnique (Denis Villeneuve)
Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda)
The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman)
A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar)
Tsar (Pavel Lungin)
Vengeance (Johnnie To)
The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof)
Woman on Fire Looks for Water (Woo Ming Jin)

Want to watch:

Air Doll (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat)
The Day After (Lee Suk-Gyung)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
In the Electric Mist (Bertrand Tavernier)
Impolex (Alex Ross Perry)
Independencia (Raya Martin)
Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
The Mouth of the Wolf (Pietro Marcello)
Mr Nobody (Jaco van Dormael)
No One Knows About Persian Cats (Bahman Ghobadi)
Persecution (Patrice Chereau)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
To Die like a Man (João Pedro Rodrigues)
White Material (Claire Denis)

[Monsieur Arkadin]

The Time That Remains (Elia Suleiman)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)
A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Cohen)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog)
Hump Day (Lynn Shelton)
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-Soo)

Visage (Tsai Ming-Liang)
Crank (Brian Taylor, Mark Nevaldine)
Observe and Report (Jody Hill)
A Town Called Panic (Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar)
White Material (Claire Denis)

[karl]

not a strong love for this year, as with all 21st cent.

contenders:

room and a half (khrzhanovsky)
melody for street organ (muratova)
vincere (bellocchio)
freedom (gatlif)
envy (demirkubuz)
when we are all asleep (beizai)
songs from the southern seas (sarulu)
in the electric mist (tavernier)
the portuguese nun (green)
a brand new life (lecomte)
like you know it all (hong)
the city of your final destination (ivory)
villa amalia (jacquot)
about elly (farhadi)
triage (tanović)
the last station (hoffman)
a prophet (audiard)
bad lieutenant (herzog)

[Holdrüholoheuho]

ballot...

I Love My Boring Life (Jan Gogola Jr.)
The Ferrari Dino Girl (Jan Němec)
Photo & Copyright by G.P. Fieret (Frank Van Den Engel)
Antonio Ligabue: Between Fiction and Reality (Salvatore Nocita)
Full Country (Antoine Boutet)
Cooking History (Péter Kerekes)
Everyone Else (Maren Ade)
Material (Thomas Heise)
Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Peter Whitehead)
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (Benjamin Whalley)

Hanging Upside Down in the Branches (Ute Aurand)
Man and Gravity (Jakrawal Nilthamrong)
Memo Mori (Emily Richardson)
Doshi (Premjit Ramachandran)
Jan Klusák - Axis Temporum (Dan Krameš)
Walking Too Fast (Radim Špaček)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
The Invention of Dr. Nakamats (Kaspar Astrup Schröder)
Ukrainian Literature: Guide for Assholes (Anatoliy Lavrenishyn, Dmytro Kolomoytsev)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine)

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watched in the (long) past & can (barely) remember (9!)...
BRUSH OF BAPHOMET (Kenneth Anger)
THE CANNIBALISTIC COUNCILLOR (Pedro Almodóvar)
CITIES OF GOLD AND MIRRORS (Cyprien Gaillard)
OPUS NO. 50 OR THE STORY OF MILADA HORÁKOVÁ (Petra Nesvačilová)
MARBLE CAKE, COFFEE, CHICKEN AND SOUP (Petra Nesvačilová)
LOGORAMA (François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy)
MEMO MORI (Emily Richardson)
59/184/84 (Lukáš Kokeš)
BITCH ACADEMY (Alina Rudnitskaya)
PETROPOLIS: AERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS (Peter Mettler)
ASCENSION (Pavel Medvedev)
THE INVENTION OF DR. NAKAMATS (Kaspar Astrup Schröder)
JAN KLUSÁK - AXIS TEMPORUM (Dan Krameš)
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ION B. (Alexander Nanau)
COOKING HISTORY (Péter Kerekes)
PROTECTOR (Marek Najbrt)
ANTICHRIST (Lars von Trier)
RUHR (James Benning)
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (Werner Herzog)
DOGTOOTH (Yorgos Lanthimos)
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino)
TRASH HUMPERS (Harmony Korine)
ENTER THE VOID (Gaspar Noé)
WALKING TOO FAST (Radim Špaček)
I LOVE MY BORING LIFE (Jan Gogola Jr.)
3 SEASONS IN HELL (Tomáš Mašín)
DISORDER (Weikai Huang)
A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR (Barbara Hammer)
PHOTO & COPYRIGHT BY G.P. FIERET (Frank Van Den Engel)
TERRORISM CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS (Peter Whitehead)

logged on KM (since 2016) (4!)...
1. Facs of Life (Silvia Maglioni, Graeme Thomson, 2009, 116m)
2. The Films of Guy Bourdin (Guy Bourdin, Nick Knight, 2009, 11m)
3. The Visible and Invisible of a Body Under Tension (Emmanuel Lefrant, 2009, 7m)
4. In Comparison (Harun Farocki, 2009, 61m)
5. Excerpt (Guli Silberstein, 2009, 5m)
6. Amer (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2009, 90m)
7. Masks (Jérôme Boulbès, 2009, 7m)
8. Fall in Frame (Sarah Pucill, 2009, 18m)
9. Iceland Spar (Alexander Stewart, 2009, 3m)
10. #37 (Joost Rekveld, 2009, 31m)
11. Art Pollution Kit (Pollution Movies) (Michal Kindernay, Gívan Belá, 2009, 9m)
12. Dazzle (Cyrus Frisch, 2009, 85m)
13. NYC (Jeff Scher, 2009, 2m)
14. Everyone Else (Maren Ade, 2009, 119m)
15. Celebration of Dead Leaves (Benjamin Balcom, 2009, 13m)
16. Transmission (Benjamin Balcom, 2009, 5m)
17. The Delian Mode (Kara Blake, 2009, 25m)
18. The Burning Blue (Jesse McLean, 2009, 9m)
19. Shot Film (Greg Pope, 2009, 4m)
20. Antonio Ligabue: Between Fiction and Reality (Salvatore Nocita, 2009, 68m)
21. Children’s Game 5: Revolver (Francis Alÿs, 2009, 3m)
22. Marriage Is For... (PES, 2009, 1m)
23. Doshi (Premjit Ramachandran, 2009, 74m)
24. Abstract? (Alexei Dmitriev, 2009, 4m)
25. Sound Over Water (Mary Helena Clark, 2009, 5m)
26. Learning from Light: The Vision of I.M. Pei (Bo Landin, Sterling Van Wagenen, 2009, 84m)
27. My Husband's Women (Ivan Vojnár, 2009, 85m)
28. Ukrainian Literature: Guide for Assholes (Anatoliy Lavrenishyn, Dmytro Kolomoytsev, 2009, 3m)
29. Karel Vachek (Martin Šulík, 2009, 57m)
30. Friends (Tomasz Mielnik, 2009, 11m)
31. Best Worst Movie (Michael Paul Stephenson, 2009, 93m)
32. Solstice (George Kuchar, 2009, 3m)

watched for the poll (7!)...
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 2009, 64m)
60 Seconds of Regret (Ed Gass-Donnelly, 2009, 1m)
La Dolce Vita (Steven Woloshen, 2009, 2m)
Delight (Thomas Draschan, 2009, 3m)
Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell (Jim Finn, 2009, 3m)
Great Man and Cinema (Jim Finn, 2009, 3m)
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (Ken Jacobs, 2009, 4m)
Robes of War (Michèle Cournoyer, 2009, 5m)
Parallax (Inger Lise Hansen, 2009, 5m)
Toxic Mango (Khavn, 2009, 5m)
Sangria (Mikel Guillen, 2009, 5m)
Chick (Michał Socha, 2009, 5m)
Dahlia (Michael Langan, 2009, 3m)
Man and Gravity (Jakrawal Nilthamrong, 2009, 11m)
Georgic for a Forgotten Planet (Lynne Sachs, 2009, 11m)
The Ferrari Dino Girl (Jan Němec, 2009, 68m)
Mind the Horses (Květa Přibylová, 2009, 10m)
My Fair Baby (Květa Přibylová, 2009, 10m)
The Snail on the Slope (Vladimir Todorović, 2009, 8m)
Reframe (Nazli Dinçel, 2009, 4m)
Man Of The Soil (Pierre Deschamps, 2009, 7m)
Pink (Rudolf Thome, 2009, 82m)
Incident by a Bank (Ruben Östlund, 2009, 12m)
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco Via Kardinal by Otto Muehl (Ben Russell, 2009, 4m)
Mémoires imprimées (Karl Lemieux, 2009, 3m)
Hanging Upside Down in the Branches (Ute Aurand, 2009, 14m)
Full Country (Antoine Boutet, 2009, 58m)
Stealing the Corn (Martin Turk, 2009, 12m)
The Skeleton-Woman (Sarah Van den Boom, 2009, 10m)
Because the Night (Alexandra Dahlström, 2009, 9m)
The Kinda Sutra (Jessica Yu, 2009, 8m)
J. (Alexandre Larose, Solomon Nagler, 2009, 7m)
Synchronization (Rimas Sakalauskas, 2009, 8m)
Sutro (Jeanne Liotta, 2009, 3m)
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner, 2009, 96m)
Monolog (Laure Prouvost, 2009, 9m)
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (Benjamin Whalley, 2009, 58m)
Backyard (Sharon Lockhart, 2009, 31m)
The Invisible Collection (Rita Azevedo Gomes, 2009, 56m)
Material (Thomas Heise, 2009, 166m)

[sally]

^hey ho jiri, baffled on the new name, which bit is the egg bit?

started my 2009 viewing proper with two nice films:

eric baudelaire's the makes - a fake documentary about antonioni's japanese period, right up my street/void...

and then the 16mm b&w manila (raya martin, adolfo alix jr.) - echoes of past filipino cinema and glimpses of the future all whirling around a study of the city....(btw what happened to filipino cinema, it was brave new bright thing for a while and seems to have fizzled out?)

also featuring fantastically cute main actor

[Holdrüholoheuho]

"holdrüholoheuho" carries no meaning whatsoever — it is purely onomatopoetic.
i appropriated it from a subtitle of some 1920s/1930s? bergfilm? (i just remember a lot of skiing — not the title).
and that particular subtitle accompanied some yodeling (or alike — can't recall clearly anymore).

[sally]

ah good, i've just been making idiotic mouth movements at the screen trying to say it, i'm not gonna start yodelling at my neighbours at 23:45 at night....

and greennui, dunno if we want to start arguing with imdb/letterboxd for such recent year polls but just noting here in case i forgot - manuel mozos' ruínas (the most pornographic of ruin porn anyone could possibly want) is 2009 on imdb but 2010 on lboxd

[sally]

oh and just realised the makes is free to watch for everyone

https://www.ubu.com/film/baudelaire_makes.html

[Holdrüholoheuho]

it is chanted hold-rü-holo-heuho

[---]

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009)
A Town Called Panic (Stéphane Aubier/Vincent Patar, 2009)
Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Werner Herzog, 2009)
Mystery Team (Dan Eckman, 2009)
Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine, 2009)
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi, 2009)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009)
The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch, 2009)
Ne Change Rien (Pedro Costa, 2009)
"I Leave Chelsea Hotel" (Jonas Mekas, 2009)
"Chicago Corner" (Bill Brown, 2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009)
A Serious Man (Joel Coen/Ethan Coen, 2009)
Passenger Side (Matt Bissonnette, 2009)
"Límites (1ª persona)" (Elías León Siminiani, 2009)

[Holdrüholoheuho]

2009 poll highlights:

THE INVENTION OF DR. NAKAMATS (Kaspar Astrup Schröder)

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-inventi ... -nakamats/

an eccentric 80-year-old Japanese inventor responsible for 3,357 inventions

crucial scene (of the film) demonstrating an "underwater invention method"...
https://youtu.be/jFxNGvTP99E

[rischka]

i watched la bocca del luppo

[rischka]

can't edit posts anyways i feel my faith in 2009 helped bring the site back

[sally]

anyway working through some docalliance 2009s

fighting the brain - jan šípek

is everyone in czech republic this incessantly creative or are these guys just crazy? i can't tell.

[Holdrüholoheuho]

i am 98,76% sure i watched that film in the past — but can't recall anything at all.
if i would rewatch, i am 98,76% sure of making the same screencaps!

[oscarwerner]

A Prophet (Jacques Audiard)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Lebanon (Samuel Maoz)
The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
------
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella)-
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
Public Enemies (Michael Mann)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper)
------
Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie)-
I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan)
Antichrist (Lars Von Trier)
Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee)
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
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Watchmen (Zack Snyder)
Sin Nombre (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
Agora (Alejandro Amenábar)-
Bad Day to Go Fishing (Álvaro Brechner)
The Cove (Louie Psihoyos)

[Angel]

2012
Ajami
Amreeka
Bright Star
Bu neng mei you ni (Cannot Live Without You)
Celda 211 (Cell 211)
Coeur animal (Animal Heart)
Gigante (Giant)
Le père de mes enfants (Father of My Children)
Lola
Mademoiselle Chambon
Män som hatar kvinnor (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
My Sister's Keeper
Ondine
Politist, adjectiv (Police, Adjective)
Rapt
Sin nombre
Solitary Man
The Good Heart
Welcome

Deliberately excluded (IMDb/TSPDT/S&S top 500):
3 Idiots
A Serious Man
Avatar
Darbareye Elly
Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
Dev.D
District 9
El secreto de sus ojos
Enter the Void
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Inglourious Basterds
Mary and Max
Nefes: Vatan Sagolsun
Star Trek
Un prophète
Up
White Material

[...]

Wait, 2012 is your number one choice? What? I mean, that's cool, so to speak, but certainly unexpected!

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

It's alphabetical order.